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News about the Basque language, culture and contemporary creation.
Euskara. Kultura. Mundura.
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Kimuak wins the Zinemira Award at the San Sebastian Film Festival
The Basque short film programme promoted by the Etxepare Basque Institute and the Basque Film Archive has received the award for the career of an outstanding personality in the field of Basque cinema.
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Meeting between the Basque and Spanish Ministers for Culture at the Etxepare Basque Institute
The Basque Minister for Culture and Language Policy, Bingen Zupiria, and the Spanish Minister for Culture and Sport, Miquel Iceta, met this morning at the Etxepare Basque Institute’s headquarters in San Sebastián.
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Working meeting with Georgian delegation
This academic year the Etxepare Basque Institute is launching a new Basque Language and Culture Chair at the Tbilisi State University (TSU) in Tbilisi, Georgia. The director of Etxepare, Irene Larraza, welcomed the representatives of the university and the Georgian ambassador on Friday, September 17th.
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Basquemusic.eus website presented at Mercat de Música Viva de Vic
Mercat de Música Viva (MMVV) is currently underway in Vic, Catalunya. This annual meeting place for all music industry professionals was chosen as the venue to present the website basquemusic.eus, a tool to promote the Basque music scene abroad and further opportunities for all involved in the music industry.
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‘Experiencia Elkano’ tackles major global challenges
On the occasion of the Day of the Basque Diaspora, which will be celebrated tomorrow, Wednesday 8 September -coinciding with the arrival of Nao Victoria in Seville in 1522-, the Etxepare Basque Institute, the Elkano Foundation, the Organization of Ibero-American States (OEI) and the Delegation of Euskadi in Argentina-Mercosur have launched the ´Elkano Experience´, a transoceanic project consisting of a virtual tour Elkano and the first voyage around the world and 16 questions that take us back to the 16th century.
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Basque Theatre: of Giants and Ants
In the ´BASQUE. Theatre´ book, Aizpea Goenaga and Pedro Barea have studied and recorded the different situations in which the sector finds itself in the Basque Country, Navarre and Iparralde.
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Over 35 creators show their work through the ‘Basque windows’ programme
More than 35 Basque creators and 15 companies will participate in August and September in nine performing arts festivals held in Spain, France and Portugal.
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Iratxe Ansa to take ‘Al desnudo’ to the Venice Biennale
San Sebastian choreographer and dancer Iratxe Ansa will be the only artist from Spain at the 15th Biennale di Venezia, held this year from 23 July and 1 August.
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IV Meeting of Lecturers & Language Assistants at Tabakalera
On Wednesday 21 July, twenty-two Basque language and culture lecturers from 36 universities in 19 countries gathered in Tabakalera’s Room Z to take stock of the year and reflect on challenges for the future.